Robert William Dewar Boyce (b. 1943, Montreal) was (until his retirement) a Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His main fields of interest are French external relations in the twentieth century, the role of economics, business and banking in modern international relations, Canadian external relations since 1900, and the modern history of international communications.

Boyce earned his BA from Wilfrid Laurier University, his MA from the Institute of United States Studies, and his PhD from the London School of Economics. After completing his PhD, he was a Research Associate at the LSE Centre for International Studies before joining the Department of International History as a Lecturer in 1977. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and the Paris-Sorbonne.

He has made a significant number of publications in academic journals and has also edited and translated several books. He also lectures in the controversial subject of the European Civil War.

Chapters in edited collections

'Wall Street and the Spectre of the "Money Power" in Small-town America before and after the Crash of 1929', in Philippe Romanski (ed), Etats de New York, Rouen: Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 2000, pp. 19-31

'Britain's Changing Corporate Structure and the Crisis of Central Bank Control in the 1920s, in Philip Cottrell and Alice Teichova (eds), Finance in the Age of the Corporate Economy, Aldershot Hants: Ashgate Publishing, 1997, pp. 142-63

'Economics and the Crisis of British Foreign Policy Management, 1914-45', in D. Richardson and G. Stone (eds), Decisions and Diplomacy: Essays in Twentieth-Century International History London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 9-41

'The Origins of French Support for European Monetary Union', in D. Currie and J. Whitley (eds), EMU after Maastricht: Transition of Revaluation?, London: Lothian Foundation Press, 1995, pp. 69-86